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Spirituality group

21/6/2016

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Last night we held the first mindful meditation/Christian spirituality session.  Truth to tell I was a tad nervous.  Not only had thirteen people gathered in my front room to ‘give it a try’ but I had also trumpeted the Blackbird project at the crowded church meeting last week.  I had put myself on trial!
Some of the potential issues for me were:
  • Will this be ‘enough’ for the people who already go to church?
  • Will this be ‘enough/too much’ for the people who only want mindfulness meditations?
  • Thirteen people are too many for the intimacy and confidentiality I want to encourage.
  • Will the people who wanted to come but couldn’t feel left out and excluded when we meet next month?
There were lots more of these concerns.  Yet none of these seemed to be issues for the people who came.  My reflection is that for those already in church it opened up a whole new road to walk down to discover a totally different perception of God.  For those who wanted meditation alone, it gave them enough of that and more besides (we did two meditations).  And on the issue of the group being too large people said they felt that they knew one another well enough to allow intimacy and confidentiality.  I’m not sure about my last concern but I can only do my best to keep channels open and a space for them to feel connected.


What did we talk about?  Well, we talked about science and God. We talked about consciousness and epigenetics.  About connectedness – together as a group and to those we love and DNA. We talked about the word LORD, Yahweh, YHWH and Ruah.  Was it ‘highbrow’?  I hope not, but it was down to earth and informative and we went some way to joining the dots of life and breathing a sigh of relief.  A central theme to the 90 minutes was No Judgement – of ourselves or others.  A good start that people seemed to enjoy.

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Why Did I Do That?

21/6/2016

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​Do you ever regret the things you agreed to do?  I ask because a while ago I was asked to write a theological article.  My immediate reaction was ‘Yeah, I can do that!  Let me know more later’.  I must have felt good about something that was going on – you know, when anyone can ask you anything and you feel so buoyed that nothing is impossible.  So saying yes was the most natural thing in the world.

Well, now the time is fast approaching and I have to put pen to paper, submit it for scrutiny and wait and see. This does not feel like a good idea at all.  And then I saw on the rota of contributors that Frances Young will publish her article immediately before mine. It’s a good job that the most used phrase in the Bible is ‘Do not fear!’regrets

I have noticed in the mindfulness sessions that how we feel about something greatly affects what we think we can do.  If we feel rubbish, then the world is rubbish.  If we feel good, then the world is good. Our emotions drive how we live our lives.  Yet I have also noticed as a  ‘pioneer’ that almost every day is about doing something that I have not done before. I often have no idea about how I’m going to do it, only that an idea might be a good one so we need to get it done.  It’s a bit like Grommit in the ‘Wrong Trousers’ where he picks up the spare track and lays it frantically in the hope that he can hang on.

So I’m off to lay some tracks, to think hard, to have some fun and put mindfulness to the test!

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    Tim Moore the Circuit Pioneer Minister. This Blog extract is taken from theblackbirdproject.net

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